Martijn Verboven about the artwork

This is my most recent photomanipulation. I made this as the cover for Brainvoyager’s new track The Eternal Quest, which will be released within a few hours. It’s like an electronic symphony, a real spacy track that just requires being listened to with your full attention. He asked me to listen to it the way one’s supposed to do it (lying back with your eyes closed, allowing it to take over your mind) and create a cover based on what I’d see in the trip my mind and fantasy would create for me based on the sounds. This is the result.

The music is so hypnotic that it makes you dream and see beautiful worlds you’ll be floating through, especially when you listen to it like this right before going to sleep (with a sleepy head), already in bed (which I did). I felt and saw myself floating through a large and empty frozen world, with thunder everywhere, that would kick in based on the melody and certain sounds that reminded me of it. It was like dreaming. Flying through that world which would change based on the emotions the melodies gave me. Everything was light, just bright and nearly shining; like a thunderbolt was constantly shining over me, ceasing to disappear.

I knew this was going to be the atmosphere this song needed, so I just had to recreate it. Therefore I did what I like to do: took a bland image of some trees with snow on them and added in everything I saw on my spacy journey through the song. The brightness, light, thunderbolts, a frozen lake in the background and a bit of fog, and now it’ll serve as the new cover soon.

Martijn Verboven on DeviantART